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MORNING GLORY DNA LIBRARY. "We used a cDNA library from seedlings, and 3 cDNA libraries from flowers and buds of wild-type...to obtain EST sequences, and are now preserving over 60,000 EST clones. The DDBJ and other public database accession numbers for the 25,899 EST sequences obtained from flower and bud full-length cDNA. We are preserving 55,296 BAC clones." https://lnkd.in/d4mmCAr View in LinkedIn

150 MORNING GLORY MUTANTS PRESERVED. "The National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB) is a sub-center of the National BioResource Project (NBRP) for work on Morning Glories. Our group works with the core institute at Kyushu University to gather, preserve, and distribute mutant lines for flower pigmentation and various DNA clones." But thousands have been lost. https://lnkd.in/d4mmCAr View in LinkedIn

SOMATIC MUTATION INHERITANCE. "In contrast with the situation in higher animals, somatic mutations in higher plants can enter the germline and be transmitted the progeny. This is due to two unique features of their development: i) unilimited growth and cell totipotency." https://lnkd.in/dcpj9qm View in LinkedIn

MUTABLE GENES. Most genes are relatively stable and mutate at low frequencies, but some mutate faster, called mutable genes. These give rise to genetic mosaics containing mutated and non-mutated tissues, typically in somatic tissues. https://lnkd.in/dtPwxTq View in LinkedIn

SOMATIC MOSAICS. "Nearly all of the genetic material among cells within an organism is identical. However, single nucleotide variants (SNVs), indels, copy number variants (CNVs), and other structural variants (SVs) continually accumulate as cells divide during development. This process results in an organism composed of countless cells, each with its own unique personal genome. Thus, every human is undoubtedly mosaic." https://lnkd.in/dtPwxTq View in LinkedIn

DISTINCTION. "Mosaicism stands in contrast to chimerism, the phenomenon of an individual being composed of the products of two or more fertilization events." https://lnkd.in/dtPwxTq View in LinkedIn

DISTINCTION. "Mosaicism stands in contrast to chimerism, the phenomenon of an individual being composed of the products of two or more fertilization events." https://lnkd.in/dtPwxTq View in LinkedIn

GIANT TULIP GENOME. "The tulip genome is gigantic, it is ten times as big as the human genome amounting to 30 Bio nucloetides, while we have 3.2 Bio of nucleotides." https://lnkd.in/dqpDyTS View in LinkedIn

MOSAICISM. "A fundamental principle of biology is that the DNA blueprint of a multicellular organism is identical among cells within the organism. The term mosaicism describes a violation of this principle that arises when specific cells within a developing organism mutate to develop two or more cell populations with distinct genotypes." https://lnkd.in/dtPwxTq View in LinkedIn

"EPIGENETIC CHANGES as cause of colors were detected in the 1950ies for maize kernels by Barbara McClintock from Cold Spring Habor Laboratories. The Laws of Gregor Mendel`s were known, but the color patterns did not obey them and it was the genius of McClintock`s to conclude that this was what is now known as epigenetic changes." https://lnkd.in/dqpDyTS View in LinkedIn